Quote #92
We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit. :-/
More from Larry Wall
- Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
- Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
- True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
- Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies. :-)
- I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)
- Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
- I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-)
- Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives. :-)